Greek Festival of Dallas - 52nd Annual

The Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Dallas has an annual festival late September http://www.greekfestivalofdallas.com/. I had been once before on a Saturday afternoon and not much was going on. A friend invited me to go Saturday night and I almost said no thinking back to my one and only visit. Then I thought well this time I'll be going in the evening surely lots more is going on. Sure enough...We got there about 7pm. We bought the dinner ticket with our admit ticket. I'm not big on Greek food, but that food was fab-u-lous, all of it!

Here's what came on the dinner plate:
Souvlakia and Rice (delicious marinated pork or chicken meat on a skewer)
Spanakopita (baked butter filo dough filled with chopped spinach, Greek Feta, cottage and parmesan chese, seasoned with onion and mint)
Tiropita (baked buttered filo dough filled with Greek feta cheese, eggs and seasonings)
Dolma (grape leaf stuffed with ground meat, rice, and seasonings)
Pastitsio (Greek style lasagna made with layers of macaroni noodles , seasoned ground meat and topped with bechamel sauce)
Greek Salad with Feta Cheese and Olives
Pita Bread

Then we toured the church which is a must...One of the priests (probably because he was only ordained in March therefore new guy on the block) gave us the tour.

The dancing was great to watch too.

I went to Greece and Turkey in 1997. I never bought myself an evil eye. I kept thinking I'll get one at the next place. Well guess what I didn't come home with one. Funny how that happens. Well I bought one at the festival Agora (marketplace) for $3... In Greece and Turkey these charms are believed to ward off "the evil eye". I really like dark blue glass, too. There's a picture of mine at the bottom of this entry. It's a little bit bigger than a quarter.

I'm not big on crosses but one of the vendors had these really pretty unusual crosses:
http://www.piecebypieceart.com/paintedcrosses.htm